Saturday, May 14, 2022

"Trust" in the Supreme Court has been weakened by the leak? Dear Justice Thomas: Trust was gone long before now.

From USA Today -

Justice Thomas laments leak of draft Supreme Court abortion opinion: 'Kind of an infidelity'

Associate Justice Clarence Thomas on Friday compared the leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion in a blockbuster abortion case to "an infidelity," arguing that it weakens trust within the high court as well as public perceptions of the institution.

"When you lose that trust, especially in the institution that I'm in, it changes the institution fundamentally. You begin to look over your shoulder," Thomas said at an event in Dallas. "It's like kind of an infidelity – that you can explain it but you can't undo it."


Ummm....sometimes the decisions are pro-corporate, like in Hobby Lobby and Citizens United, or pro-party, like Bush v. Gore or Rucho v. Common Cause, most of this court's decisions are like the draft Roe decision - anti-American people.


Trust in the Court was set aside, by the Court itself, long ago.

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